Rank v. Dauphin & Susquehanna Coal Co.

By the Court.

The plaintiffs in this case have given in evidence a prima fade good title to the land in dispute. They would be entitled to recover it if there was nothing to gainsay or overturn their title.

They show an application made by William Stewart, Jr., for a warrant on the 7th of June, 1794, reciting a settlement made on 1st March, 1789 ; a warrant issued on the 18th of June, 1794; located by a survey on the 22d June, 1795; returned into the land office on the 10th of July of the same year; a deed from Stewart to James Wilson, dated May 11th, 1795; a judgment in the Circuit Court of…